KTP had a durian party on 8 Aug, prior to the Singapore National Day. The SJ bosses came over, too.
We took the Magnext set out, and Samuel enjoyed building 2D and 3D creations, together with Joseph.
Here are 2 photos taken of Joseph playing basketball with his friend in school, after the official training session.
We continued our on-line ordering with Indian food from Brinda’s:
Grace worked night, so she skipped swimming, but here are the rest of us:
Samuel enjoyed the Engineering toy set, so we took out the larger box, and he was absolutely delighted with the increase in building materials!
Here’s a little miscellaneous post: our neighbour, bought a grey Honda Odyssey recently, and his plate is very similar to ours!
We often order from food deliveries nowadays, including Food Panda and Deliveroo. Here are some of the food we ordered:
Four Fingers (Korean sticky sauce fried chicken):
Nasi Lemak (Adam Road):
Pastamania:
We sometimes also eat out, like at this Thai restaurant at ARC called Soi Tai, Soi Nice:
Chee Kean helped us get a very nice tea, Xia Yue Gan (小月甘):
Joseph had a school excursion and he bought 2 stick insects, his new pets, Sticky and Woody:
The stick insects eat leaves of guava, jambu air, green beans or hibiscus. We went to Redhill Close to harvest some hibiscus leaves.
Here is a photo taken at our weekly swim:
Grace took out the Engineer set for Samuel, he really enjoyed it.
We bought a set of Lego for Samuel, with Moana, Maui, Hei Hei, a boat and an island. He was able to follow 60% of the instructions and built it over 3 nights with the other guiding him.
On Tuesday night, 11 July, we had an early birthday dinner for Grace at Xin Wang. The birthday package included this huge mango ice.
We took Samuel to KKH for the 3rd-month echo-cardiogram follow-up scan. He behaved very well, waiting in the hall nicely for 1 hour, then scanned buy the technicians and the doctors for another 1 hour.
Results shows that there is no significant indication of any damage to blood vessels or the heart valves, so Samuel is taken off the daily dose of Aspirin.
We thank God for keeping Samuel healthy and safe after the Kawasaki Disease attack.
After the scan, we had a nice dinner (without David and Joseph who were in Chinese class) at Rollie-Olie, Star Vista.
Esther finally received her birthday present from YowCH and Grace, the G-Shock GA1000FC watch that used to be YowCH’s. We had to buy a plastic resin strap online and replace the fibre-composite bracelet because the bracelet spreads wide at the watch and thus unable to hug her skinny wrist properly. The resin strap works fine.
Esther really loves the purple UV LED light of this Aviation model, which now has a plastic strap as a GA1000 (no “FC”).
Here’s a nice photo of Samuel drinking soup from a large bowl bigger than his head.
We are now ordering dinners through Food Panda. Options are plenty and we can save time on travelling, parking, walking and waiting at the restaurant.
24 June: Sichuan food:
1 July: Korean food:
Thanks to Paul Ng in helping us bring home some cheap Soju from Seoul, we had this nice grapefruit-flavoured Soju at home.
We took out Esther’s old set of Little People Zoo (which was also enjoyed previously by David and Joseph) for Samuel. He really liked the Zoo set.
And a strange thing happened – David says he wants to learn guitar, so YowCH and Esther started coaching him. Starting with basic chords like C, G, D, E, Am, and F. Hopefully he can persevere and learn enough to play.
Samuel is now able to swim for more than 20m without any floats and breathe properly. Thanks to coach Francis, teaching him for free!
Samuel had a follow-up heart scan on 20 April at KKH. He was behaved well, and allowed the scan to be carried out smoothly.
The scan results are positive. Thank God he is alright. Another follow-up scan in 3 months time to confirm if there is any permanent heart damage.
Samuel had high fever from Friday, 7 April until Tuesday 11 April, so we brought him to KK Hospital A&E on Tuesday morning. After seeing the A&E doctor and doing a blood test (negative results), all the signs points towards Kawasaki Disease.
There was an article on Kawasaki Disease back in 2015 in Singapore newspaper Today.
Here is a description from KK Hospital.
Here is Samuel after his finger-prick for blood, he didn’t even cry.
With this disease, early treatment is important, we we had to admit him to the ward. However, the wards were full, so YowCH went home to pack clothes and bring some toys and lunch, while we waited in the corridor for bed space.
He was then admitted to Ward 75 at about 1.00pm, a 4-bed room.
Later in the evening, YowCH brought the other children to visit, and he was placed into a single-bed room.
Next morning, YowCH visited after sending the children to school.
A team of doctors saw him at about 10.am and IVIG treatment for Kawasaki was confirmed (simpler explanation here).
The IVIG was started at about 12:30pm.
Grace’s mom and Gene visited in the afternoon.
YowCH went back to work in the afternoon, then fetched the children after school to meet Samuel.
We left the hospital at about 9:20pm. The IVIG completed the entire dosage at about 11:00pm.
On Thursday, YowCH had to go to work for some critical meetings. He dropped the children at school, and visited Samuel and Grace for a short while.
Samuel wasn’t drinking and eating very well, so he had to be on the drip.
Grace brought him out for a stroll after the drip was taken off.
Some friends visited, Pastor Frederick, Mrs Pastor Annie Beh, his teachers, and Grace’s colleague, Ang Soh Hong.
YowCH visited again in the evening, but Esther had school activity and the boys had Chinese tuition class. YowCH left at about 8:45pm.
Friday was Good Friday, and YowCH brought the Joseph to visit early in the morning, after dropping Esther and David at church for Good Friday service.
Yan and family visited at about 11:30am, and then Grace left for work at 12:20pm (afternoon shift).
The doctor confirmed Samuel’s discharge, and he was given 3 months’ worth of aspirin to help with blood flow.
Grace’s parents visited, Esther and David brought lunch as they came over from church.
With the discharge papers signed at about 5:00pm, we left the hospital at 5:20pm on Friday, 14 April (Good Friday).
We thank God that the doctors were able to diagnose the disease early and correctly, and the IVIG was administered in a timely manner. We also thank God that Samuel responded well to treatment and is practically healed now. We will have some follow-up check-ups and medications, but as of today (Sunday, 16 April, Easter) he is doing very well.
